Shonan Beach FM is a radio station based in
Zushi in
Kanagawa Prefecture,
Japan
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. Operated by Zushi Hayama Community Broadcasting Company, it broadcasts mainly
jazz, but also features
R&B and
Big Band, as well as a certain amount of
Hawaiian and
classical music
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Transmitting on a frequency of 78.9 MHz, Shonan Beach FM was established on 3 December 1993. Ten years after its launch it had gathered a listenership of around 200,000 in Japan alone and many more via the internet, over which its output is streamed.
Although the station's (minimal) spoken output is in
Japanese, its website does include some information in
English.
External links
Official English version of the websiteSimulradio webpage(in Japanese)
Mass media in Kanagawa Prefecture
Radio stations in Japan
Internet radio stations
Radio stations established in 1993
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